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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce was not an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I was not able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

We are born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

There is something to be said for failing. It is not the failure you feel, it is the failure that people project when something disappoints. You are back to ground zero, where there is no expectations, and that is where I like to be.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I am psyched.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they do not want to know nothing about you!

Success is 99 percent failure.

If you are not a born-again Christian, you are a failure as a human being.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it is doomed to failure.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I do not think there is any way it could have failed. We do not know failure in this band. We did not know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

When you experience a failure as a leader, do not hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.